First day of OSCOM 4

This conference is smaller than OSCOM 3 held in Harvard university and in about the same range as OSCOM 2 in Berkeley. However, this just means that this time most people attending are developers instead of end-users, and discussion ranges from interoperability topics to cultural issues.

I'm chairing the Apache Track of the event. The first day was mostly Jakarta topics, and so not that interesting to me personally. Day two will be focused on PHP and so closer to my interests. However, day one brought forward several interesting projects:

After the event and some beers we had a nice Italian dinner outside in slight rain in the old city of Zürich, and continued to caipirinhas and cigars in a Brazilian bar.

30 September 2004

Decoupled Content Management

Decoupled Content Management is a movement to bring clean separation of concerns into CMSs. With it, Content Management Systems can focus better on their core functionalities, and get the missing pieces through code-sharing and collaboration.

For me, the decoupled CMS story began in the OSCOM era of early 2000s, and culminated in the still-popular Decoupling Content Management article I wrote in 2011. The tools mentioned there — Create.js, VIE, and PHPCR — have since reached quite a nice level of adoption in mainstream CMSs.